Package getopt: Information

    Binary package: getopt
    Version: 2.38.1-alt1
    Architecture: x86_64
    Build time:  May 25, 2023, 09:58 AM in the task #321761
    Source package: util-linux
    Category: System/Base
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    License: GPL-2.0 and GPL-2.0-or-later and LGPL-2.1-or-later and BSD-3-Clause and BSD-4-Clause-UC and ALT-Public-Domain
    Summary: An improved implementation of getopt
    Description: 
    An improved implementation of getopt(1), a program to parse
    options within a shell script. Fully compatible with other
    getopt(1) implementations, but with many additions like
    long options and mixing of options and parameters.

    Maintainer: Alexey Gladkov


    Last changed


    Oct. 15, 2022 Alexey Gladkov 2.38.1-alt1
    - New version (2.38.1) (fixes: CVE-2023-0563).
    Jan. 25, 2022 Alexey Gladkov 2.37.3-alt2
    - Set restricted execution mode to mount/umount/write by default.
    Jan. 24, 2022 Alexey Gladkov 2.37.3-alt1
    - New version (2.37.3).
    - Security fixes:
      + CVE-2021-3995: This issue is related to parsing the /proc/self/mountinfo
      file allows an unprivileged user to unmount other user's filesystems that are
      either world-writable themselves or mounted in a world-writable directory.
      + CVE-2021-3996: Improper UID check in libmount allows an unprivileged user to
      unmount FUSE filesystems of users with similar UID.